Articles in Eurolang

[Zsuzsa Csergo]

Interesting stuff, I think...
Zs
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold F. Schiffman" <haroldfs at ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
Date: Monday, June 21, 2004 11:19 am
Subject: Articles in Eurolang

> Forwarded from Eurolang.org
>
> Russian community activism gets boost in post-election atmosphere
> Brussel/Bruxelles 6/21/2004 by James Fife
>
> In the wake of the European Parliament elections last week,
> activism on
> the part of the Russian-speaking communities in some of the new member
> states and across Europe has taken an upturn. The biggest
> development has
> been the founding of a pan-Europe political party to represent the
> interests of these communities.
>
> Catalan fury over language clause as EU chiefs hail Constitution deal
>
> Brussel / Bruxelles 6/21/2004 by Davyth Hicks
>
> EU chiefs hailed their agreement on the Draft Constitution over the
> weekend following the end of talks early on Saturday morning.
> While EU
> leaders were celebrating the deal the Catalan press and language
> activistshave reacted with fury to the omission of their, and
> other non state
> languages, from any prospect of elevation to Treaty language status.
> Catalans, for example, will still have to use Spanish in any
> correspondence with EU institutions. Furthermore, despite EU
> claims of
> "respecting cultural and linguistic diversity" only official
> languages can
> be used for the translation, thereby excluding Breton, Occitan and
> Corsican, which are not recognised by France.
>
> No great surprises after European election in Wales
>
> Abergele 6/18/2004 by Huw Morgan
>
> The main changes in the European elections in Wales was that Plaid
> Cymrulost one seat and were displaced by the Conservatives which
> became the
> second party and the fact that the eurosceptic and anti-devolutionist
> United Kingdom Independence Party received about 10 per cent of
> the Welsh
> vote.
>
> IGC: No Treaty status for non-state languages, Treaty translation only
> Brussel / Bruxelles 6/17/2004 by Davyth Hicks
>
> The Inter-Governmental Conference (IGC) will decide today and tomorrow
> whether non-state languages may be used for translations of the Draft
> Constitutional Treaty once it is signed. The request by the Spanish
> government that Catalan, Galician and Basque have Treaty status,
> givingthe right to send and receive correspondence in one's own
> language, has
> been left out from the Irish Presidency's revision.
>
> Irish election results look good for the language. Nine of the
> Republic'sthirteen new MEPs support full official status for Irish
>
> Brussel / Bruxelles 6/16/2004 by Davyth Hicks
>
> The result of the European elections in the Irish Republic suggest
> thatthe controversy over Irish not being an official EU working
> language may
> have played a part in the outcome of the election. Seán Ó
> Neachtain MEP
> tells Eurolang that, "In the new term of the European Parliament,
> I will
> continue to put pressure on the government to make a formal
> application[for full working status] as soon as possible."
>
> EU elections : Polish MEP list will be short on language supporters
> Brussel/Bruxelles 6/16/2004 by James Fife
>
> Surveying the provisional results of the European Parliament
> elections in
> Poland provides only slight cheer for supporters of minority
> languages and
> regionalism. This is the opinion of Tomasz Wicherkiewicz,
> president of the
> Poland Member State Committee for the European Bureau for Lesser Used
> Languages (Pol-EBLUL), who spoke with Eurolang today about the new
> slateof MEPs. Wicherkiewicz, who is with the Department of
> Language Policy and
> Minority Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, stated that
> "Unfortunately two of the most language-supportive candidates were
> not on
> the list of the elected, although there was some certainty they
> would get
> through."
>
> Irish Presidency against Catalan, Basque and Galician having
> Treaty language status?
>
> Brussel / Bruxelles 6/14/2004 by Davyth Hicks
>
> According to the Catalan, Spanish and French press the Irish
> Presidencyopposes Catalan, Basque and Galician becoming Treaty
> languages. El Pais
> and Avui both reported in mid May that according to 'official Irish
> sources' the Irish Presidency is against the three languages having
> official status. Instead the languages will only be used to
> translate the
> Treaty, but will not be given Treaty status themselves.
>
> EP election results in Estonia reflect language issues
> Tallinn 6/14/2004 by Alexander Shegedin
>
> Turnout for the European Parliament elections in Estonia was one
> of the
> lowest in the EU-26.7%-and the lowest in the history of Estonian
> elections. The ruling right-centre coalition won only one of six
> mandates,with five seats in the EP going to the opposition. The
> main sensation was
> the success of the opposition Social-Democrats, which was achieved
> throughthe outstanding showing by Toomas Ilves, a former foreign
> minister. He
> collected more than 76,000 votes and has guaranteed three seats
> for his
> party. The second best personal result was shown by Siiri Oviir
> (CentreParty) at 16,633.
>
>
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